Keynote Speaker:

Mandeep Dhaliwal

Our speaker for QMUN 2020 is Mandeep Dhaliwal, the Director of UNDP’s HIV, Health and Development Group, Bureau of Policy and Programme Support. Ms. Dhaliwal brings to the organization over 20 years of experience working on HIV, health, human rights and evidence-based policy and programming in low and middle-income countries. Joining UNDP in 2008, she became the architect of the Global Commission on HIV and the Law. Prior to joining UNDP, she was a senior adviser to the Dutch Royal Tropical Institute’s Special Programme on HIV/ AIDS focusing on issues of HIV care and treatment in developing countries. She was instrumental in expanding the International HIV/AIDS Alliance's technical support and policy work on issues of HIV care, treatment and support in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America. From 1993 to 2000, she worked on HIV and human rights issues in India as the founding Coordinator of the Lawyers Collective HIV/AIDS Unit. Dhaliwal is also a British national and did her studies at the University of Ottawa in Canada.